Launch for John Poulsen’s Shakespeare for Reader’s Theatre today.

The launch for John Poulsen’s Shakespeare for Reader’s Theatre: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Midsummer Night’s Dream, takes place this evening at 7:00 p.m. at the Round Street Cafe, 427 5th Street, Lethbridge, Alberta, hosted by the University of Lethbridge Bookstore. John Poulsen Here’s a schedule of the evening’s events:6:45 doors open and people will be invited to snack on the Round Street goodies. 7:00 Kate (John Poulsen‘s daughter) will welcome everyone, introduce the evening’s program…

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Mar 2013

By Lorina StephensEvents, John Poulsen, Shakespeare for Readers' TheatreComments Off

Jeff Minkevics discusses cover for Type

July 1, 2013 Five Rivers will release Alicia Hendley’s second novel, Type. The novel focuses on the fallout from the Social Media Era, when rates of divorce, crime, and mental illness were sky-rocketing and civilization was at its breaking point. As a result, prominent psychologists from around the globe gathered together to try to regain social order through scientific means. Their solution? Widespread implementation of Myers-Briggs personality typing, with each citizen assessed at the age of…

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Mar 2013

By Lorina StephensAlicia Hendley, artwork, Books, Jeff Minkevics, Newsletter, TypeComments Off

A Method to the Madness: advance orders and contest

In an almost unprecedented move, a conclave of The Super Evil convened last year at a secret lair in North America to create a guide book for aspiring ne’er-do-wells. The result? A collection of papers known generally as A Method to the Madness: a Guide to the Super Evil, a collection destined to become the handbook globally of every evil genius. It was agreed such an undertaking required hiring of minion editors, as such a…

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Mar 2013

By Lorina StephensA Method to the Madness, Books, Jeff Minkevics, Michell Plested, Mik Murdock, Newsletter, Publishing1 Comment

Alicia Hendley’s Type gaining attention

Alicia Hendley’s forthcoming YA SF novel, Type, is destined, it would seem, for great things. This past summer Hendley wrote a screenplay based on Type, subsequently entered it in the Canada International Film Festival (CIFF), and was notified yesterday by CIFF officials she’s made the cut: “Your…screenplay has been chosen as an Official Selection of the 2013 Canada International Film Festival.” According to CIFF information, Hendley’s screenplay is only one of 23 films and screenplays chosen…

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Mar 2013

By Lorina StephensA Subtle Thing, Alicia Hendley, Awards, TypeComments Off

John Poulsen presents Shakespeare for Reader’s Theatre

John Poulsen, the video crew at the University of Lethbridge, and students from a local middle school, had a blast making this video, in which Poulsen demonstrates and discusses the dynamics of his book, Shakespeare for Reader’s Theatre: Book 1, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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Feb 2013

By Lorina StephensJohn Poulsen, Shakespeare for Readers' TheatreComments Off